You should try submitting your work to a lit mag, TH. Could use a bit of tightening, but pretty good. I've seen way worse stories get published. I really liked it. Here's hoping Batlord wasn't at the compound when Trangor visited, or he'd probably give up on humanity then and there.
As for what I've been writing, though I don't really talk about it much on here, I've actually been working on a book for the past two months set in that same sort of ruined post nuclear world. No giant intelligent cockroaches, though.